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Annual, perennial herb, shrub, vine
Leaves simple or compound, cauline (or most in basal rosette), alternate or opposite; stipules 0
Inflorescence: cymes, heads, or flowers solitary
Flower: calyx generally 5-ribbed, ribs often connected by translucent membranes that are generally torn by growing fruit; corolla generally 5-lobed, radial or bilateral, salverform to bell-shaped, throat often well defined; stamens generally 5, epipetalous, attached at same or different levels, filaments of same or different lengths, pollen white, yellow, blue, or red; ovary superior, chambers generally 3, style 1, stigmas generally 3
Fruit: capsule
Seeds 1many, gelatinous or not when wet
Genera in family: 19 genera, 320 species: Am, n Eur, n Asia; some cultivated (Cantua, Cobaea (cup-and-saucer vine), Collomia, Gilia, Ipomopsis, Linanthus, Phlox )
Recent taxonomic note: *See also revised taxonomy of Porter and Johnson 2000 Aliso 19(1):5591; Porter 1998 Aliso 17:8385
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Annual, generally erect; branches spreading or ascending, hairy, glandular or puberulent
Leaves simple, alternate, generally deeply pinnately lobed or entire
Inflorescence: head; bracts pinnately to palmately toothed or lobed, spine-tipped; flowers sessile or subsessile
Flower: calyx membranous between ribs, lobes 45, entire or toothed, unequal, spine-tipped; corolla lobes 45; stigmas 2 or 3
Fruit generally ovoid, chambers 13
Seeds 1many per chamber, free or stuck together, brown, gelatinous when wet
Species in genus: ± 30 species: w North America, also in Argentina, Chile
Etymology: (F. Navarrete, Spanish physician, 1700's)
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Plant prostrate with central head and radiating leaves and stems bearing heads
Stem generally leafless and glabrous except below heads, hairs recurved
Leaf > 2 X head diam, glabrous, 12-pinnately lobed from base to tip, axis 14 mm wide, lobes linear, pointed tipward
Inflorescence: bracts like leaves but shorter, hairy below, basal wing wide, membranous, ciliate, lower lobes 23-branched on back
Flower: calyx ribs hairy, tapered, tube slightly glandular at base, lobes glabrous, often 3-toothed; corolla 79 mm, blue to white, lobes linear, < 1 mm wide; stamens and style exserted, stigmas 2, minute
Fruit translucent, sticking to seeds until wet
Seeds 525, separating when wet
Ecology: Alkaline floodplains, vernal pools
Elevation: < 700 m.
Bioregional distribution: w San Joaquin Valley (Merced Co.), Inner South Coast Ranges, c South Coast (Los Angeles Co.), Peninsular Ranges (Santa Rosa Plateau)
Horticultural information: TRY.